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Canada Without Poverty (CWP) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to eradicating poverty in Canada and educating Canadians about the link between poverty and human rights. It is based in Ottawa, with a second office in Vancouver and is run by a board of directors who have, or have had, personal experiences of poverty. Canada has yet to develop consistent poverty indicators, which makes it difficult to effectively help the estimated 1 in 7 or 4.8 million people living in conditions of poverty. This is what CWP is working to change. == Origins == CWP was founded in 1971 as a registered charity. It was an outgrowth of the Poor People’s Conference which took place in Toronto in 1971, organized by the National Council of Welfare (NCW), under the auspices of the Canadian Minister of National Health and Welfare.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History )〕 The original name of the organization was the National Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO). This name was changed to Canada Without Poverty (CWP) in 2009. It has had partnerships with the (Red Tents Campaign, )(Dignity for All: the campaign for a poverty-free Canada ), (Voices –Voix ), and the (Poverty Reduction Coalition ). The charity, from the beginning, was organized to become a main umbrella of nationwide anti-poverty activists; its mandate is identify the causes of poverty and to promote poverty eradication and human rights. Beginning in 1973, NAPO presented its first research document on hunger and food costs to the Federal Parliament. It continued, from this first campaign, to address poverty-related issues whether advocating for better health care, higher unemployment insurance benefits, fairer taxation, family benefits, recognition of homelessness and women’s poverty, and/or the fundamental human rights of people living in poverty. It has acted as liaison between community groups and the Parliament in power. In the 1990s NAPO began to expand its forums to regional and international discussions about poverty eradication, including concerns about homelessness, women’s poverty issues, wage inequality and the growing attack on the poor, the result of neoliberal shifts towards the downsizing of government and dismantling of social programs. From addressing the UN as an NGO〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Health for All, Dignity for All. (2011) )〕 to co-hosting conferences at the regional and international level, NAPO not only increased its presence but drew powerful connections between reality of poverty in Canada and growing poverty as a result of globalization. In the 1993 it convened a second Poor People’s Conference〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=porter_claiming_adjudicative_space. )〕 and co-hosted a UN Poverty Roundtable in 1998 to deal poverty in the Americas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History )〕 In the 2000s it published documents including Voices: Women, Poverty and Homelessness in Canada, a study of female homelessness in Canada, and began a national campaign for a new minimum wage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History )〕 It also championed the rights of homeless people and won a legal case against the City of Winnipeg which was forced to repeal a by-law prohibiting panhandling.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Canada Without Poverty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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